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The Discovery+ streaming service reached 17 million homes globally at the end of the second quarter, David M. Zaslav, President and chief executive officer, has confirmed.
Would-be subscribers to HBO Max in the United States can now watch selected episodes of some of the platform’s most popular programming in-app before choosing to sign up.
The new ad-supported European streaming service rlaxx TV has partnered with the music video network Vevo to add curated pop-genre music video linear channel to its channel portfolio.
German media company ProSiebenSat.1 is bundling the Ultra HD (UHD) content of its TV channels on the new UHD channel ProSiebenSat.1 UHD.
Discovery’s international advertising revenues increased by 88% year-on-year as Europe bounced back in the second quarter.
Netgem TV is now offering subscribers 200 channels, following the addition of an extra 20 channels.
The VH1 brand, which has been present in Europe since the mid 1990s, is being phased out in favour of MTV 00s.
Joyn, the joint German streaming platform operated by ProSiebenSat.1 and Discovery, is now offering the TV channels of public broadcaster ARD with HbbTV.
Virgin Media Ireland has picked up multi-platform rights to the UEFA Champions League, UEFA Europa League and the new UEFA Europa Conference League for the 2021-24 seasons.
ODMedia, Source 1 Media, and Premiere TV have announced the launch of FEAR, a horror-themed subscription service channel available on Amazon Prime Video exclusively in the Netherlands.


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It was around two years ago that the idea of an online retail store exclusively for plus-size people came to Abhijeet H Jadhav. “It’s true when they say necessity is the mother of all invention. My wife Nanita wasn’t able to find plus-size trendy clothes for herself and after searching both offline and online, we realised that this segment is very under-served. And this prompted us to launch Larjjosa in 2015,” says Jadhav, the co-founder and chief business officer of the online fashion portal, which caters exclusively to plus-size women. Larjjosa, which delivers across India, offers a wide range of clothes like tops, tunics, jackets, dresses and bottoms for ‘curvy’ women, with prices starting from Rs 700.
Interestingly, Larjjosa isn’t the only store in India that is helping plus-size people in the country move beyond Indian-wear, the only option for most large-sized people in the country for lack of availability of western clothes in their size. There are a host of players now, including Pluss, Lurap, aLL The Plus Size Store, etc, which are making it possible for them to look and feel trendy. “Even though the demand for plus-size clothing in India is huge, big brands are reluctant to cater to the segment. Hence, plus-size people, more often than not, end up wearing ethnic clothes. At Lurap, we decided to offer them more than that. We believe everyone deserves to look beautiful and looking beautiful means you wear clothes that fit you perfectly, whether western or Indian,” says Vidit Sehgal, co-founder, Lurap, a Gurugram-based online fashion store that offers custom-size and custom-style clothing for women of all shapes and sizes. Lurap was launched in March 2015 and offers different styles like dresses, tops, bottoms, jumpsuits, skirts, etc, starting from Rs 1,000.
But one of the earliest players in the segment was Pluss, an online plus-size clothing store, which was launched in 2006. It stocks a wide range of styles like dresses, shirts, trackpants, shorts, trousers, blazers, waistcoats, denims, tunics, kurtis, leggings, jeggings, skirts, tops, etc, for both men and women, with prices starting from as low as Rs 599. “Pluss was launched 11 years back. At that time, the idea of clothing for larger-sized people was not as common as it’s today. And that’s why we launched the portal to address the lack of availability of such clothing in India,” says founder Sandeep Aggarwal, adding, “Since we launched, the plus-size fashion industry has seen major growth, especially in the past six years. It’s turned into a serious and competitive industry now.”
“The plus-size segment is estimated to account for $5-6 billion in the $40-billion Indian online fashion apparel market by 2020, that is, 10-12% of the overall market,” says Sivaram Kowta, vice-president, menswear, Myntra, which stocks over 10,000 styles in the plus-size category on its website. “We started carrying plus-size clothing around four years back owing to the huge demand and there has been great response ever since,” he says.
The segment is taking such giant strides that well-known names in the fashion industry are also being forced to stop and take notice. Lakme Fashion Week (LFW), for instance, made news in August last year when it hosted an exclusive plus-size fashion show in association with aLL The Plus Size Store. In a first, plus-size men and women sashayed down the ramp. “Internationally, too, fashion weeks are embracing the concept. The intent is to start a conversation that will hopefully take a life of its own and lead to greater focus in creating fashion for all body types,” says Jaspreet Chandok, vice-president and head, IMG Reliance, which organises the fashion week in association with Lakme.
Needless to say, the show was a great success in breaking stereotypes and a big morale booster as well. “I have always faced criticism for my body type even from family. My uncles would always smirk at me at family events. All they seemed to notice was my weight. But since the time I have walked the ramp for the LFW, their attitude towards me has changed,” says 26-year-old Mumbai-based businessman Rajiv Bhasin, who was one of the 10 models selected for the show. “The perception will take time to change, but this is a big milestone towards achieving that. People should realise that ‘fashion’ and ‘fat’ can go together.”
One of the biggest challenges in the segment is also what defines it: the different shapes and sizes that come under it, as no two plus-size people have the same measurements. So how can buyers be sure that the size they have chosen will fit them? “Our USP is our well-designed size chart, which was finalised after thorough research on the Indian plus-size body. Customers of various sizes find it really easy to understand their body structure with reference to the size chart. We also provide size customisation if customers need clothes in a specific size. As we are an online store, pre-purchase trial of clothes is not available, but we do have a flexible return/exchange policy,” says Jadhav of Larjjosa.
“There are no trials for clothes since all the garments are made exclusively after the customer has made the purchase. Our returns are less than 4%. In case a customer is not happy with the fit, we re-alter the garment for them,” says Sehgal of Lurap.
There are other challenges as well. “Plus-size fashion is hard to execute. Since all body types are different, it becomes important to understand the customer’s body before making a garment. Body parts like arms, biceps, thighs, etc, need to be given more importance than they are generally given,” says Sehgal.
Agrees Aggarwal of Pluss: “The challenge in plus-size fashion is that the garment is big, but you still have to make it look beautiful. One needs to keep in mind how the human physiology varies in people because everyone is different size-wise.” But whatever the challenges, there is no dearth of demand. “We get orders from all over India and are witnessing steady acceleration. Our average revenue per customer is between Rs 1,200 and Rs 1,500. We are seeing steady growth in terms of revenue, as well as customer acquisition,” says Jadhav.
Manish Aziz, business head, aLL The Plus Size Store, explains the reason behind the huge demand. “India is now the third country in the world to have the most number of fuller-bodied individuals after the USA and China. Many organised retailers have realised the huge potential and have started to cater to this category. The future, therefore, is very bright. The industry is emerging and is expected to grow at 25% per annum.”
Explaining why they decided to collaborate with the LFW for the plus-size show, Aziz says, “The fashion industry in India has been fixated on size zero for a long time now, but this has gradually been changing globally. So we thought it was the right time to initiate this revolution in India as well. We have been catering to the segment since the brand’s inception 11 years ago, but we wanted to take this one step further by hosting the first-ever plus-size fashion show in India. We also wanted to give the plus-size populace an opportunity to be part of a fashion revolution. We hope it helps to integrate the plus-size industry into the mainstream fashion industry in India,” says Aziz.
Fashion designer Little Shilpa (aka Shilpa Chavan), who styled the plus-size show for the LFW, puts things in perspective. “Fashion should not get the licence to decide what works and what doesn’t based on someone’s body type. People are now demanding individualistic acceptance, and body positivity is being celebrated versus body shaming,” she says, adding, “It’s the need of the hour for us to not to get confined by generalised notions of what is fashionable or stylish based on body size or type. India currently has more number of curvy women than those who fall in the size-zero category. And this makes the country a very large market for plus-size fashion.”

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For eight weeks a year in Spring, the world's largest and most prized flower garden, the Keukenhof, blooms across 32 hectares of the Dutch countryside. Nestled in the town of Lisse which is situated in the western part of Holland, what's known as the "Garden of Europe" radiates as seven million flower bulbs come to life attracting an estimated 1.4 million visitors from around the world.
“We created Keukenhof as the showcase of the Dutch floral industry,” said Bart Siemerink, managing director of the Keukenhof gardens which this year is celebrating its 70th anniversary since its founding in 1949. “What you can find in Keukenhof is a beautiful garden with over 800 varieties of tulips, all shapes, all colors, all heights.”
From flower enthusiasts to budding photographers to fashion designers, the garden attracts visitors from over 100 different countries who flock to the park for that brief spell in mid-April which is when the flowers are at their best.
Precision and timing are essential for the 40 gardeners who keep the park in perfect order for the busloads of visitors. “Here at Keukenhof we plant in layers, so we have three types of flowers on the same bed. This is why it looks good for the eight to nine weeks that we are open,” explained Luta Lark, one of the gardeners.
The park's gardens are split into an array of sections, with pavilions and exhibitions showcasing tulip displays alongside hyacinths, daffodils, orchids and roses. Each year a different theme is established, allowing international floral designers the opportunity to show off the creativity that's required to uphold a standard which is surpassed nowhere else in the world.
The Keukenhof is open 8:00 a.m-7:30 p.m. between March 21 and May 19. Its location is easily reached from Amsterdam or The Hague via public transport.


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By KRYSTLE CHOW
Published in the Ottawa Business Journal newspaper and website.
Oct. 15, 2007
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Third Brigade’s Brian O’Higgins says the arrival of all the online tools and applications that constitute “Web 2.0” has given rise to a new rogues’ gallery of security threats for which government must be prepared.
Photo by DARREN BROWN for the Ottawa Business Journal
GTEC conference looks at customer-dictated service delivery and how governments, businesses can get there together
The high-tech world has been abuzz for some time with the concept of “Web 2.0” and customer interaction with various aspects of tech, so it was only a matter of time before the government started looking at what that means for the public sector.
This is the theme for this year’s Government Technology Exhibition and Conference (GTEC), which starts Tuesday and runs until Oct. 17. The conference, now in its 15th year, allows hundreds of small and large tech companies to mingle with and market to the various levels of government and gain insight into how to work with the country’s largest enterprise.
GTEC executive director Kevin d’Entremont says the advent of user-generated sites such as YouTube and Facebook has changed the face of service delivery, and governments, just like any other enterprise, can’t afford to be left behind.
“Web 2.0 means that the consumer is now dictating when and where people want to receive services,” he says. “There are expectations in the marketplace, and governments have to follow suit with their services as well, and change their approach to be more suitable and agile. Service delivery has to be tailored or developed to serve the demands of social computing.”
Kim Devooght, vice-president (public sector) of IBM Canada which is an exhibitor and sponsor of the event, says GTEC is a great opportunity to develop dialogue between the government and the people and businesses with whom it works, especially in light of the changing face of Canadian demographics.
“The next generation of the Internet is about social networking and groups of individuals working on themes and ideas together,” Mr. Devooght says. “What our own studies have shown is that the greatest source of innovation comes from outside the enterprise … (often) you can’t come up with solutions by yourself and you have to get them through collaboration, so to get government to engage in greater dialogue with its stakeholders is a great idea that we’re positioned to help on.”
As one of the largest service providers in the country, the government of Canada ought to pay attention to the communication tools that young people are using, since they are often totally different from that of the baby-boomer set, he adds.
“The government has to be able to figure out how to use the communication tools these folks are using and build them into their service delivery methods or people will disengage. You can’t expect (customers) to stand in a queue to get a product these days,” Mr. Devooght says.
The concept of “Government 2.0” brings other challenges with it, says Brian O’Higgins, chief technology officer of exhibiting company Third Brigade.
“It’s a new age of innovation and collaboration, and … the perimeters are really disappearing and you have to open everything up to do business,” says Mr. O’Higgins, noting that this trend often leads to heightened security risks.
He says the notion of Web 2.0 means it’s no longer enough to protect individual computers using perimeter defences such as firewalls or antivirus software, since the increasing complexity of web-based transactions means more valuable data is exposed to hackers through the Internet.
“If the government is very boring and only puts a bit of information on its website with nothing complicated, they’re probably very safe,” Mr. O’Higgins says. “But … any web-based application where people are exchanging login information, identifying themselves, looking themselves up as a business or consumer, requires many database servers, custom software, and often links more than one government department in that one application. To the end user, it seems very simple, but it’s the back end of many servers that are exposed to the Internet, and that’s where the vulnerabilities lie.”
As such, Third Brigade, whose Deep Security line protects mission-critical information technology assets down to the individual networked computers and devices, is hoping to make the Canadian government aware of its technology through its involvement in GTEC.
“We’re on our way to the worldwide market and we’re anxious to get deployed in governments around the world and want to start at home,” Mr. O’Higgins says, noting that Third Brigade’s products are already in use in about 10 government departments. “The Canadian government is a good reference, and we want to be deployed broadly in Canada before going to other governments … the Canadian government is well-known for its best practices.”
GTEC is a great place to see the latest products and trends such as Third Brigade’s solutions, as well as discuss the issues surrounding doing business with the government, but it’s not a “geek fest,” Mr. d’Entremont says.
“It’s a rare opportunity as well to see people like Privy Council clerk Kevin Lynch … the government is completely engaged in this program,” he says. “We’re finding more and more that GTEC is no longer just about IT; the look of a public servant who delivers services is changing from just tech enthusiasts to a non-IT program manager.”
For more information about GTEC, visit http://www.gtec.ca/index.html.


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Weekend Overview: Graphene Batteries, LG And Sony Financial Results, Microsoft Layoffs, Chinese Mobile Market BreakdownBy cheatmaster 02:23 Wed, 04 Aug 2021 Comments
Quite a few stories broke out during the weekdiscontinue and there were a few that I felt would be incorrect not to cover.
First, the Chinese company Dongxu Optoelectronics launched the first graphene battery pack for consumers and it's nothing short of impressive. The graphene batteries are often viewed as the next generation of power supplies for the mobile devices, as they allow for super-quick charging and there's no risk of explosion.
The Dongxu's G-King Battery Pack has a power of 4,800 mAh - far from impressive power and it is bulkier than a regular Li-Ion 10,000 power bank. But this particular graphene battery recharges in about 13 minutes. Indeed, it seems the future is closer than we thought.
By the discontinue of last week some quarterly reports were made available as well. LG announced its Q2 earnings of $503 million - a 140% increase over Q2 in 2015. The growth is attributed to the strong sales of air conditioners worldwide and overall steady performance in Asia and Europe.
As far as LG's mobile department is concerned, it saw a revenue of $2.86 billion - that's 12% better than Q1, but down from Q2 2015. Due to the increased market expenses the division posted an operating loss of $132 million.
Sony's financial results for its Q1 (April-June) bring some fine news. Sony Mobile posted a total profit of $4 million which may not be much, but the division is no longer operating at a loss thanks to trimming and reorganization of its business. This also means it's no longer in jeopardy of closure, at least for now.
It's not all roses, though, as Sony needs to sell more phones. Sales are down 33.7% and its expenses are rising becautilize of the stronger Japanese Yen. Well, if it all falls apart, the PlayStation department is always there to bring some nice numbers to Sony and haged the investors excited enough.
Microsoft saw some distress last week - in order to trim its Nokia losses down even more, the company laid off 2,850 workers. A few months ago another batch of 1,850 workers were dismissed in continuing efforts to haged the losses from Nokia's somewhat manageable.
And finally, a report from China explored the state of the Chinese mobile makers throughout Q2 this year. Huawei is the top selling Chinese brand globally with more than 32 million phones sold, followed by Oppo with 22 million, and Vivo with 16.4 million. Xiaomi tumbles down to the fourth place with 15.2 million sales.
Oppo still has cautilize for celebration - Oppo leapfrogged Huawei in the final month of the quarter when it commanded 23% market share and dominated Huawei's 5.5% share.
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GM has set aside at least $400 million to pay victims of the 2.59 million compact cars with a potentially faulty ignition switch linked to at least 13 deaths, the company said in July. The one-time charge, which it said may rise to $600 million, recall costs and other charges led to the auto maker posting a second-quarter profit that missed analysts' estimates.
Lawyers for GM's customers are jostling to lead lawsuits over the faulty ignition switches. Car owners suing over the lost value of recalled vehicles have yet to learn whether they can claim $10 billion, a few hundred thousand dollars, or nothing. That number will be decided later by the bankruptcy judge who presided over GM's bailout in 2009.
GM plans to launch 40 new cars in India and in other international markets excluding China, North America and Europe, Ms. Barra said.
The U.S. car maker “sees a lot of opportunities in India from a market perspective,” Ms. Barra told reporters. The company has started exporting cars from India to Chile, she added.
GM, which entered India in 1994, has failed to challenge market leaders Maruti Suzuki India Ltd. and Hyundai Motor Co. and consistently lost market share in recent years. Cars often priced above rivals' competing offerings and inadequate service networks are among reasons analysts cite for GM's and U.S. peer Ford Motor Co.'s lack of progress in Asia's third-biggest auto market.
GM's share of passenger vehicles sold in India slid to 3.2 percent in the 12 months ended March, from 3.3 percent a year earlier, according to Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers' data. That was a fourth straight annual drop.
The auto maker is engaged in a significant restructuring of its operations in India, GM's International Operations President Stefan Jacoby said today, without elaborating. GM has two factories in India including one in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's home state of Gujarat.
“The Indian market is very important as many predict it will be the world's third biggest market, after China and the U.S., by the 2020s,” Ms. Barra said. “As we move forward we don't just want to be a competitor in the segment, we want to lead.”
Reuters contributed to this report by Bloomberg News that appeared on the website of Automotive News, a Detroit-based sister publication of Tire Business.


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What is the main reason, that iPad fans are most disappointed about due to the lack of flash? Well its certainly not Youtube, as Youtube has been available for the iPhone and will be available for the iPad, and still users are complaining. Can it be Hulu? Well according to TechCrunch, Hulu is already working on an iPad version either for its site or as a separate application.
One rumor I’ve heard from an industry insider is that Hulu is working on an iPad-friendly version of its site that should be ready by the time the iPad hits the market. Hulu itself is still vague about its plans. When asked directly by Om Malik whether Hulu has any plans for the iPad, CEO Jason Kilar recently hemmed and hawed about how he is a big believer in mobile, but wouldn’t confirm or deny anything. -TechCrunch
When Youtube became available on the iPhone, it had to convert a huge part of its videos to become compatible with the iPhone. However, Hulu’s videos are already in H.264 format, so it is not required to convert all its videos.
There is still no official word about such thing, therefor you can say that this is still a rumor, a very intriguing rumor.


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The Dadha Group owned NetMeds.com, India’s first e-marketplace for pharma to offer delivery across the country announced the launch of its mobile app, bringing the convenience of buying prescription medication online to everyone with a smartphone and a valid prescription. This application can be downloaded on any Android or iPhone device enabling users to validate their prescriptions, learn about various medicines and even compare drugs by prices.
The app makes the entire Netmeds.com catalogue of more than 50,000 SKU’s available to everyone with a valid prescription and a smart phone. Consumerswill now have 24/7 access to the most up-to-date and affordable drugs for health maintenance, ordered online and delivered across the country. The company has tied-up with India Post to provide delivery services.
The app will also maintain the records of the medicine order and will give refill reminders to make sure the medication is not forgotten. Once a user has uploaded their prescription, it is carefully examined by the company’s pharmacists, for proper dosage, duration, and other points of validity, further ensuring the patient of the best possible outcome. Once validated it becomes a “cloud-stored and retrievable document”, which is important not only for refill purposes but also in the course of overall health maintenance management.
Commenting on the launch Pradeep Dadha, CEO, Netmeds, said “This is an important milestone for Netmeds.comas well as being a giant leap forward in the war against chronic disease. Through the app we aim to reach out to the millions of people living in non-metro areas where access to many drugs, up until now has been limited and difficult.”
The app will give an opportunity to prescription medication users to select their required medications from more than 260 drug categories for the Chronic Conditions, such as Diabetes, Hypertension and Cholesterol Control.


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WASHINGTON – As a push to get consumers to buy, a lot of big retailers are offering free shipping this coming Wednesday.
“It’s December 18, it’s free shipping day. Hundreds of retailers are going to be offering free shipping with no minimum order required and guaranteed delivery by Christmas,” says consumer savings expert Andrea Woroch.
“So you can even pick up some of those easy stocking-stuffers online without paying for shipping!”
Some retailers are setting Friday, Dec. 13, as the last day for shipping deals, so check with individual stores.
Sites such as lastsleighdays.com list retailers’ shipping deadlines, so shoppers can avoid paying for expedited shipping to get their gift under the tree in time.
Before you go stand in line to send boxes to your loved ones, Woroch says make sure to pack with care. Leave one inch of space around each item and pad the package thoroughly with something more reliable than newspaper, she says.
“Make sure its a sturdy box – that it’s not old or used. UPS found that even if there’s a few creases in the box, it increases the possibility of damage by 70 percent,” Woroch says.
Some states will not accept some fruits, or wine, or even batteries, so shippers need to check the U.S. Postal Service website for the shipping regulations.


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Extrasolar Planet's Missing Water Discovered
April 12, 2007 11:16 AM
The debate on whether or not Osiris has water in its atmosphere continues
A new analysis again suggests that gas giant HD209458b currently has water in its atmosphere. The planet -- nicknamed Osiris -- is 150 light years away from Earth, located in the Pegasus constellation. The planet was first detected in late November 1999, with the help of astronomical spectroscopy.
The hot, Jupiter-like gaseous planet has been the target of research once scientists believed water could be located somewhere on the planet. Three teams of scientists previously believed there could be water in the planet's atmosphere, but those ideas were questioned after the NASA Spitzer Space Telescope was unable to provide evidence.
Travis Bartman, an astronomer working at Lowell Observatory,
believes he has discovered the missing water
after analyzing the light from a star when it passes through HD209458b's atmosphere.
Barman and researchers from Harvard University measured the light coming from Osiris as it reached the furthest part of the 3.5-day orbit it makes around the star. With the help of the Hubble Space Telescope, it was possible to further study water absorption in the planet's atmosphere. Each time the planet passes its parent star, it is possible to analyze how the atmosphere absorbs light passing from the star through the atmosphere.
Scientists will continue to study and conduct research to either confirm or deny Barman's research.
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15 Feb 3 Top Dividend Stocks to get in February
Don’t anticipate 30% stock returns on a yearly basis. That’s where dividends enter into play.
2019 had been good to investors. U.S. shares were up 29% (as measured because of the S&P 500 index), making the marketplace’s negative return in 2018 — the very first calendar-year negative return in 10 years — a remote memory and overcoming worries over slow international financial development hastened by the U.S.-China trade war.
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Bridging the canyon between cable and streaming
A great deal happens to be stated concerning the disruptive force that’s the television streaming industry. An incredible number of households around the world are parting means with costly cable television plans and deciding on internet-based activity rather. Many legacy cable businesses have actually experienced the pinch because of this.
Perhaps maybe maybe Not resistant from the trend happens to be Comcast, but cable cutting is just area of the story. While cable television has weighed on outcomes — the business reported it destroyed a web 732,000 customers in 2019 — customers going the way in which of streaming still want high-speed internet to really make it take place. And that is where Comcast’s outcomes have actually shined, as web high-speed internet additions do have more than offset losses in its older lines of company. Net domestic improvements had been 1.32 million and web company adds were 89,000 a year ago, respectively.
Plus, it isn’t as though Comcast will probably get left out within the television market entirely. It’s presenting its very own television streaming solution, Peacock, in springtime 2020; while an earlier appearance does not appear Peacock will likely make huge waves on the web television industry, its addition of real time occasions just like the 2020 Summer Olympics and live news means it’s going to be able to carve down a distinct segment for it self within the fast-growing digital activity room.
Comcast is definitely an oft-overlooked media business, nonetheless it really should not be. Income keeps growing at a healthy and balanced single-digit speed for a company of their size (whenever excluding the Sky broadcasting purchase in 2018), and free cashflow (revenue less fundamental operating and capital costs) are up almost 50% during the last 3 years. According to trailing 12-month free cashflow, the stock trades for a mere 15.3 several, and a recently available 10% dividend hike puts the present yield at a decent 2.1%. Comcast thus looks like good value play for me.
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Just how young ones play is changing. The electronic globe we now are now living in means TV and video gaming are a bigger element of kid’s life than previously. Entertainment can also be undergoing quick modification, with franchises planning to capture customer attention across numerous mediums — through the display to product to reside in-person experiences.
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That latter move is significant since it yields Hasbro a k >(NYSE:DIS) has along with its fans. In reality, Hasbro’s toy-making partnership with Disney assisted its “partner brands” portion surge 40% greater through the 4th quarter of 2019. It really is apparent that mega-franchises that span the big screen to toys are a strong company, and Hasbro could be significantly more than happy to recapture also a small amount of that Disney secret.
As you go along, Hasbro has additionally been upgrading its selling model for the chronilogical age of ecommerce. Which have developed some variability in quarterly profits outcomes. Nonetheless, regardless of its change on numerous fronts, the stock trades just for 18.1 times trailing 12-month free cashflow, as well as the business will pay a dividend of 2.7per cent per year. I am a buyer regarding the evolving but nonetheless very lucrative doll maker at those rates.
Riding the memory chip rebound
As it is the truth with production as a whole, semiconductors certainly are a cyclical company. That’s been on display the past 12 months into the electronic memory chip industry. A time period of surging need and never quite sufficient supply — hastened by information center construction and brand new customer technology items like autos with driver help features, pornhub smart phones, and wearables — had been accompanied by a slump in 2019. Costs on memory potato chips dropped, and several manufacturers got burned.
It really is a period that repeats every couple of years, but one business that’s been in a position to ride out of the ebbs and flows and keep maintaining healthier earnings throughout happens to be Seagate tech. Through the 2nd quarter of its 2020 financial 12 months (three months finished Jan. 3, 2020), revenues stabilized and had been down 7% after dropping by dual digits for some quarters in a row. Its perspective can be increasing, with management forecasting a come back to development for the total amount of 2020 — including a 17% year-over-year product product product sales escalation in Q3.
It really is often the most useful timing to acquire cyclical stocks like Seagate as they are down within the dumps, together with 54% rally in twelve months 2019 is proof of that. While perfect timing ‘s almost impossible, there however could possibly be plenty more left within the tank if product product sales continue steadily to edge higher as new interest in the business’s hard disks for information centers, PCs, and laptop computers rebounds. Plus, even with the top gain in share cost just last year, Seagate’s dividend presently yields 4.4percent per year — an amazing payout that is effortlessly covered by the business’s free cashflow generation.
To put it differently, using the cyclical semiconductor industry showing signs and symptoms of good need coming online within the approaching year, Seagate tech is regarded as my personal favorite dividend shares to start out 2020.


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Corporate ad spend to dip up to 35 percent: ASSOCHAMApril 2nd, 2009 - 8:27 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, April 2 (IANS) Corporate India’s budget for brand promotion and entertainment will fall by nearly 32-35 percent in 2009-10 on account of the current meltdown, an industry lobby said in a report released Thursday.
An internal assessment of the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (ASSOCHAM), which involved nearly 300 companies, said a “vast majority” of private sector firms were yet to make their promotional budget public.
The companies that participated in the assessment exercise were from several sectors such as fast moving consumer goods (FMCG), home and electronic appliances, real estate, textiles, gems and jewellery and luxury products.
“Private sector ad and entertainment budget will shrink by 32-35 percent. The situation will be similar for the public sector as well,” said ASSOCHAM secretary general D.S. Rawat.
According to the industry group, the automobile and FMCG firms usually earmark about 10-12 percent of their total earnings for brand promotion.
“However, the current situation is so bad that despite the electronic and print media slashing ad rates by 25-30 percent and offering heavy discounts, majority of corporates are still dithering to fix allocations for advertisement and entertainment,” it said.
Rawat said leading dailies, which in the past came out with “thicker and heavier” weekly pullouts to create additional advertising space, have reduced the size by almost half.
“This indicates corporates are not making use of space available in such pullouts,” he added.
ASSOCHAM, however, said promotional activities were likely to pick up once economic turmoil blows over in 10-12 months.
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Excitement is at the peak as Ford is gearing up to launch the highly anticipated 2024 Ford Mustang Mach-E, and recent revelations about the compact electric SUV’s pricing have sparked further antic
In the fiercely competitive and highly dynamic electric vehicle (EV) landscape, Xiaomi's eagerly awaited SU7 made a thunderous entry, eclipsing competitors like Tesla and other industry stalwarts.
Amidst Europe’s burgeoning EV landscape, a surprising trend seems to have emerged as a significant portion of these eco-friendly automobiles is found to originate from the manufacturing hubs of Chi
Building on its monumental success in 2023, Chinese electric vehicle (EV) manufacturer BYD anticipates a significant jump in domestic as well as international plug-in car sales for the current year
Following its resounding success in its home market, BYD is now gearing up to make significant strides in its global expansion journey.
In the dynamic realm of electric vehicle (EV) production, American electric car pioneer Tesla Motors encountered a notable challenge in first quarter (Q1) of 2024 as the gap between its production
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LG debuts UltraGear OLED gaming monitor
August 26, 2022
LG Electronics is unveiling its latest premium monitors at IFA 2022 in Berlin, Germany, including the new UltraGear OLED gaming monitor (model 45GR95QE). LG’s first curved OLED display with a 240Hz refresh rate, LG says the 45-inch model is designed for immersive gaming experiences, offering the visual performance, speed and features serious gamers demand.
The 45GR95QE is also the company’s first-ever display to combine a 45-inch screen-size with an 800R curvature; a pairing that helps boost users’ sense of immersion. The 45GR95QE provides 98.5 per cent coverage of the DCI-P3 colour space, superior HDR10 performance and support for HDMI 2.1 – including features such as Variable Refresh Rate (VRR) – and DisplayPort 1.4.
“LG’s portfolio of innovative products on show at IFA 2022 embraces the latest trends and technologies to meet the needs and lifestyles of today’s diverse consumers,” said Seo Young-jae, senior vice president and head of the IT business unit of LG Electronics Business Solutions Company. “Our brand-new UltraGear OLED gaming monitor elevates the gaming experience with its curved screen, anti-glare solution and ultra-fast 240Hz refresh rate, while the UltraFine Display Ergo AI delivers outstanding user comfort with its ergonomic features and futuristic design. We’re excited to debut both of these exceptional products at IFA and to be back on the ground in Berlin after a two-year break due to the pandemic.”


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Gwen and Brian Bromley, owners of the Cinnamon Tree and Bromley’s Menswear respectively, pose for a photo on Friday in the Bromley’s section of the storefront they now share at 934 Rosser Ave.
It’s not every couple that gets to work side by side, especially when each owns a separate business. But that’s just what Brian and Gwen Bromley are doing, now that Bromley’s Menswear moved in alongside The Cinnamon Tree at 934 Rosser Ave.
Brian Bromley relocated Bromley’s Menswear from 929 Rosser Ave. to the vacant space beside his wife’s business, The Cinnamon Tree.
"That was always our plan, but the space wasn’t available at the time," Gwen said. "I think it’s a really great concept. It’s wonderful to have the stores full and open."
The two stores have separate entrances, but customers are able to move freely from store to store inside the building. The relocation of Bromley’s has allowed Cinnamon Tree to stretch out, as Bromley’s didn’t require the full 2,200 square feet of the new space. Cinnamon Tree added another 1,000 square feet to its space, giving the women’s clothing and gift shop a full 3,200 square feet.
"I’ve been able to put the gift wear in behind the space of Bromley’s and it’s kept it really open. I’m able too, to better display the clothes. We have so many clothes now I can show them off much better," Gwen said.
The Cinnamon Tree offers women’s clothes in a wide range of styles, age appropriateness and carries brands such as BB Dakota, Jack and Point Zero in sizes starting at two and going to XXL.
The Cinnamon Tree also carries a plethora of accessories and gift wear including handmade soaps, candles, purses, scarves, jewelry and more.
"It was a lease issue that prompted (Bromley’s) to move, but it’s worked out for the best," Brian said. "The whole main floor is now full and we’ve filled up another empty space."
Bromley’s Menswear specializing in custom-made suits, which the fit, cut, style, fabric and colour can be the customer’s choosing. Bromley’s also carries a line of Jack Lipson Fine Shirt Makers shirts and other menswear accessories that range in price.
So what is it like for Gwen to be working so close to her husband?
"I don’t see him much actually," she laughs. "Sometimes I can hear his voice, it’s nice."
Another rumour to diffuse. Public relations representatives from Red Lobster Canada tell me there are absolutely no current plans to open up one of its restaurants in the Wheat City.
Joe Beeverz Bar and Grill has had an exciting and successful first year. Chad Wallin, who owns Joe Beeverz with a local group of partners, said the grill and bar, located at 20-1300 18th St., has been embraced by Brandonites and has prompted the ownership group to open a second location in Yorkton, Sask.
Wallin said the menu has been changed here and there and the restaurant even uses customers input. Joe Beeverz recently made a separate menu for all its different types of poutine — a move that was prompted when the poutine was a limited-time item but became a huge hit with customers — now all the different varieties are a permanent menu item.
Wallin said other popular menu items include Joe Beeverz ribs, buffalo chicken, wings, freshly roasted pulled pork sandwiches and the breakfast burger.
"The first year has been fantastic. We’ve been really well received by the community," Wallin said.
For the month of August, Joe Beeverz is running the "Ultimate Man" contest, where male patrons will have the chance to win items to dress up their "man caves." For more information about Joe Beeverz Bar and Grill, visit them online at joebeeverz.com or call 204-726-JOES (5637).
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NEW DELHI (AP) — The Indian capital, laboring under the label of being the world's most polluted city, is trying something new to help clean up its air.
Withering cyberattacks on server farms of a key internet firm repeatedly disrupted access to major websites and online services including Twitter, Netflix and PayPal across the United States on Friday. The White House called the disruption malicious and a hacker group claimed responsibility, though its assertion couldn't be verified.
SAN LEANDRO, Calif. (AP) — There have long been complaints about the lack of women in the tech industry. Now there's a towering female figure, in a tech park across the bay from San Francisco, although not quite what some people had in mind.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Microsoft's focus on business software and online services paid off with a surprisingly high profit in its latest quarter, putting its stock on a trajectory toward its all-time high.
REDMOND, Wash. (AP) — Nintendo has announced a new gaming system that combines a portable handheld device with a dock to use at home.


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Business News Archive - October 30, 2012
Apple quietly issued a press release in the wake of a Google Nexus announcement and early reviews of Microsoft’s Surface tablet announcing a reorganizing of their executive staff.
Word of the Day
- The offense of persistently instigating lawsuits, typically groundless ones.
- An unlawful breach of duty on the part of a ship's master or crew resulting in injury to the ship's owner.
- Sale or purchase of positions in church or state.
This word ultimately comes from the Old French word 'barater,' to cheat.


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The 2017 National Electrical Code (NEC) and the federal solar investment tax credit (ITC) will leave their mark on the solar industry in 2019, with the NEC increasing costs temporarily and the ITC lowering incentives.
The Full Solar ITC is Available Until End of 2019
System designers and installers have until the end of the year to take advantage of the full 30 percent solar ITC, says Mayfield. Next year, the ITC drops to 26 percent of eligible costs. That means there will be increased installation activity this year as installers rush to complete projects in time to meet the Dec. 31 deadline, Mayfield says.
The ITC drops to 26 percent for projects that begin construction in 2020 and 22 percent for projects that begin in 2021. After 2021, the residential solar ITC will drop to zero. Meanwhile, the commercial and utility credit will drop to a permanent 10 percent, according to the Solar Energy Industries Assoc.
“Things are getting busier; my clients are trying to move projects earlier,” says Mayfield, president of Mayfield Renewables.
Solar Industry will be Fine Without the ITC
“I think the fact that the ITC is going away is probably a good thing for the solar industry,” says Batchelor, owner of Sol Rebel. “I don’t say that lightly; the cost of solar is low enough so we should be fine without the ITC.” As the ITC phases out, the industry will need to continue to install solar systems as efficiently and cost-effectively as possible even as equipment costs, which have been dropping for many years now, stabilize. That means contractors must increasingly focus on operational efficiency by constantly improving engineering and construction practices, he says.
Meanwhile, the 2017 NEC’s new rapid shutdown requirement took effect Jan.1 in many states–including Oregon, Missouri and Washington–and calls for solar installers and designers to include equipment that shuts down a solar system at the module level, says Mayfield.
The Challenges of Rapid Shutdown
The rapid shutdown requirements can limit a designer’s product choices, he says, noting that the requirements aren’t in effect in California because the state is not yet operating under the 2017 code.
To meet the new requirement calling for shutdown at the module level, electronic equipment must be installed at each module that reduces voltages inside the module to levels that are safe for firefighters.
“Previously we were able to wire up our modules and put some kind of control device outside the array. This was readily available and doable. The device shut it down,” explains Mayfield.
However, the only way to meet the new rapid shutdown requirement is to install an electronic device at each module–with limited options available right now for doing this, Mayfield explains.
The Need for New Products
“There are relatively few products that meet the code requirements and that are somewhat tested and that people are confident about,” he says. “For us, it means increased costs.” However, he’s confident that new products will become available and costs will come down.
In spite of these new requirements–and thanks in part to the ITC–the solar industry is expected to have a good year, says Batchelor.
“Rapid shutdown for rooftop systems will add a little cost in the short term; that’s additional hardware you have to put on the project. But the cost of that equipment should come down rapidly,” says Batchelor. “And this year will be a good year because of the ITC going down. The fact that it is expiring will drive growth.”


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The Jackson County Board of Commissioners said that criminal activity relating to marijuana production has “dramatically increased” since Oregon residents voted to legalize cannabis in 2014.
Many hemp farmers in Oregon are growing something a bit stronger than advertised, according to a new report from state regulators.
With more states permitting cannabis cultivation every year, the need to curb marijuana’s aroma is ever-growing. But how can it be done? Analytical Cannabis spoke to Filtr Revolution to find out.
A new study has found that environmental factors have little effect on whether hemp exceeds its THC limits. Instead, the researchers say, hot hemp plants are a result of genetics.
Businesses on the island can now apply to cultivate cannabis for medical use.
The research, published last week in the journal Scientific Advances, used the whole-genome resequencing of 110 different hemp and drug-type cannabis strains from around the world to study their genetic roots.
A single new agency, the Department of Cannabis Control (DCC), will oversee the licensing and regulation of all legal cannabis businesses in the state.
Jim Moore, vice president of new product development at Prospiant, answers the top 10 most frequently asked questions about cannabis extraction.


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// Aldi sets up plastic screens at 7000 checkouts to protect staff from coronavirus
// The stores will also have floor markers to ensure customers stand 6ft away from eachother
// Aldi has enhanced staff salary by 10% during this time
Aldi has announced new measurements to protect colleagues and customers amid the coronavirus outbreak.
The German discounter has installed clear plastic screens and floor markers at over 7000 checkouts to ensure customers are aware of the strict security measures.
The news comes after rival Lidl along with Morrisons and Waitrose announced plans to install cough and sneeze-proof checkout protection screens in their respective stores.
- 9000 new workers needed at Aldi as part of coronavirus response
- UK supermarkets experienced 15m more visits in the past week
Aldi has also announced a pay rise for its colleagues.
Store and distribution colleagues received a 10 per cent bonus on hours worked, backdated from March 9.
In a bid to support smaller suppliers, Aldi said it would reduce payment terms so that any supplier with a turnover of less than £1 million will now be paid immediately.
This will benefit over 1000 Aldi suppliers.
Moreover, the grocer is encouraging customers to pay using contactless rather than cash to minimise the risk of transmission.
There will also be a range of in-store notices reminding customers of the need for effective social distancing in store.
Aldi has reduced opening hours to help colleagues to re-stock products while stores are empty.
Last week, the discounter put 9000 jobs on offer in total to help during the coronavirus crisis – 5000 of which are new temporary jobs alongside 4000 permanent vacancies.


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After renewing his collaboration with Adidas — which initially spanned from 2003 to 2015 — Jeremy Scott announced he would bring his signature designs from his first era alongside the brand. Among poodle-topped shoes and teddy bear slippers, Scott plans to re-release his money-printed Forum Wings sneakers as a tribute to his first project with Adidas.
First released in 2003, Scott’s cash-covered kicks served as the designer’s earliest work with the German brand. Only 100 pairs of the printed Forum sneakers were made for his namesake label in Los Angeles, before Scott’s Adidas line grew in popularity and he later released the shoes with Wings add-ons. Now, nearly 20 years later, we’ll get to enjoy the sneakers in all their glory.
Return of the riches — Much like the original money-printed Forums, the upcoming shoes bear an off-white upper that allows their green and grey cash pattern to shine. Yet the American dollar shown on the sneaker isn’t quite accurate — Scott’s own face replaces the historical figure typically found at the center of the bill.
In true maximalist Scott fashion, everything on the Forum’s upper features the money graphics, save for its cream laces and deep green accents. The darker shade covers the shoe’s medial Three Stripes, midsole, and tread to give Adidas some credit, while Scott’s signature is etched onto the medial midsole for good measure.
Put your money where your feet are — According to Adidas, the cash-covered Forum Wings are set to arrive in the fall, though a specific launch date has yet to be announced. It’s likely a drop will align with New York Fashion Week in September, granted Scott isn’t too busy with his work at Moschino.
Contrarily, Complex reports that the new wave of Jeremy Scott x Adidas shoes are scheduled to drop in August, when the brand plans to release 2,400 winged pairs of his money-printed Forum His. A low version of the style will arrive in October, Complex claims.
No matter when the sneakers drop, however, they’re bound to be as limited as they are coveted. The dollar-decorated Forum Wings will literally give you a run for your money — and that’s given you can afford them. While no pricing information has been made available, the shoes are expected to retail around $200.
“In a reasonable world, you know, you shouldn’t have to wager two months rent to have some big, fun fashion,” Scott said to Vogue, expressing his desire to make his Adidas collaboration affordable. But with the designer transitioning from high fashion to streetstyle again, we hope he can follow through on his aspiration of accessibility.


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It might feel like summer just started, but for many parents and kids, the first day of school is just around the corner. While shopping for new clothes, notebooks and calculators may feel like a familiar ritual, the ways in which consumers stock up for back-to-school has evolved in some critical ways. NRF’s research team looked at data from our annual survey of back-to-school shoppers conducted by Prosper Insights & Analytics, as well as key foot traffic trends from location intelligence company Foursquare, and identified three lessons to help retailers get up to speed on the new back-to-school season.
Lesson 1: Consumers don’t “cram” for back-to-school shopping
A decade ago, most back-to-school shopping took place at the end of summer — parents waited until the last minute to stock up on supplies, clothes and electronics for the new school year. Nearly a third (32 percent) of consumers in 2007 did not even start shopping until a week or two before the start of classes. This gave parents a narrow window to fill their kids’ back-to-school needs while also making sure they found the best items and deals for their budgets. It’s not surprising, then, that consumers have tried to get ahead of the rush over the last 10 years: According to the latest NRF back-to-school survey, 27 percent of parents plan to start shopping a full two months before the start of school this year, compared with just 15 percent in 2007.
Younger parents have embraced the early shopping season. In 2007, just 13 percent of 18- to 24-year-old parents and 14 percent of 25- to 34-year-old parents started shopping two or more months before school; in 2017, 26 percent of 18- to 24-year-old parents and 34 percent of 25- to 34-year-old parents shopped early.
Many retailers have taken notice of this change in consumer behavior and moved up their back-to-school offerings: Target, Walmart and Amazon are among retailers that feature back-to-school advertisements and teachers’ classroom lists on their websites as early as June and July, and this year Office Depot rolled out seasonal marketing for the fall semester on June 25 — a date when most students are barely into summer vacation.
Lesson 2: Back-to-school lasts all summer long
Consumers might start thinking about back-to-school lists in June, but they stretch out their shopping all summer long. When NRF asked shoppers how much of their back-to-school shopping they had completed in early August last year, only 39 percent had finished more than half of their shopping and just 13 percent were fully done. Foot traffic patterns also point to consumers stretching their purchases throughout the season: Foursquare used 2016 data to analyze shopping patterns between Independence Day and Labor Day and found that store visits peak toward the latter half of the summer, during the last two weeks of July and into the first week of August. This pattern differs slightly depending on where consumers live.
“Foursquare’s foot traffic data reveals that parents in rural areas tend to start their back-to-school shopping earlier than urban parents, with visits to places including malls, big-box stores and office supply stores picking up in July and early August,” said Steven Rosenblatt, president of Foursquare. “Urban parents stagger shopping more evenly throughout late July and August but visit electronics stores last.” This means retailers should tailor promotion timing to ensure they’re capturing consumers when they plan to be in the store.
Lesson 3: The lines between digital and physical retail continue to blur
In 2017, 43 percent of consumers planned to use their smartphones to research products or compare prices while back-to-school shopping, compared with 33 percent just five years ago. For those early-bird Millennial parents, that number is closer to 60 percent.
Despite the growing role of mobile, only one in four consumers plans to use their phone to complete a purchase. Consumers may rely on their devices to find the best price on that trending superhero backpack or look up information on different laptop models, but once they’ve figured out what they want, they’re often heading into stores to make their purchase. In a flash poll NRF conducted among back-to-school parents, more than half said they still plan to shop mostly or entirely in-store for items such as apparel, shoes and school supplies during the 2017 back-to-school season.
They’re also likely to make more than one trip to pick up items. According to Foursquare’s foot traffic analysis, parents made six trips on average to the mall and five trips to big-box retailers during the back-to-school season. More specialized retailers such as office supply and electronics stores warranted two trips on average.
With consumers heading to the stores, merchants are tackling some pain points of back-to-school shopping. Retailers like Macy’s and Walmart promote features like “click and collect” or curbside pickup to simplify the store experience for those customers looking to complete their trips as quickly and efficiently as possible.
Consumers are driving transformation across the industry, and back-to-school shopping is no exception. Check out NRF’s Back-to-School SlideShare for more consumer trends and follow NRF’s Back-to-School Headquarters Page for additional insights throughout the 2017 season.


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Today, Apple has released the latest version of its Mac OSX operating system in the form of Mountain Lion. This is the ninth major release of the OSX operating system. The latest operating system is available as an upgrade from the Mac App Store for just $19.99.
Droid Life is reporting that the Motorola XOOM Wi-Fi will soon receive its Jelly Bean update, and will arrive as Android 4.1.1 Build JRO03H. This build is slightly newer than what is on the Nexus 7.
The Nexus 7 has been updated to build JRO03D, but this new build is slighter newer, but what is included shouldn't be much different to the Nexus 7's updated JB.
But, the XOOM receiving Jelly Bean would make it the first 10-inch tablet to receive the OS, meaning we get to see what the "full tablet experience" of Jelly Bean will feel like compared to the Nexus 7's 7-inch screen size. The update has been delayed for the XOOM Wi-Fi, and should hopefully be out any day now.
Intel has confirmed that they are working with Google in order to support newer versions of their mobile OS, Android, including the latest Android 4.1 Jelly Bean on smart devices that are powered by Intel Atom processors.
Intel didn't unveil a time frame for when the Jelly Bean port would be complete, or when the OS would be deployed on Atom-powered products, but we should see current devices get updated to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich first. Currently, Intel's presence in the mobile market is not that big of a deal, compared to their x86 processors for desktops and laptops, where they are the undeniable king.
Intel is continuing to push forward with plans to break into the mobile market, where earlier this year we saw the company release the first Intel-based smartphone for the consumer market, the Lava Xolo 9000, in India. After that, we saw the release of an Orange-branded Intel-powered handset launched in the UK and another from Lenovo in China.
During Apple's earnings press release earlier today, the Cupertino-based company announced that OS X Mountain Lion would officially launch tomorrow, July 25. Apple CEO Tim Cook said:
We're thrilled with record sales of 17 million iPads in the June quarter," said Tim Cook, Apple's CEO. "We've also just updated the entire MacBook line, will release Mountain Lion tomorrow and will be launching iOS 6 this Fall. We are also really looking forward to the amazing new products we've got in the pipeline.
OS X Mountain Lion will be priced quite well, at just $19.99 and will be made available through the Mac App Store. I would love to install it and see what it's like, but my 2011 edition MacBook Pro died a few days ago, and I'm still in the mourning stage.
As Windows 8 edges closer to release, we're seeing more and more new things leak out. Win Unleaked recently released some new screenshots of the freshest build of Windows 8, RTM build (8518).
It looks as though Windows 8 is taking on more of a square look, and ditching the curved window borders, Start menu and taskbar from the last two iterations of Windows (7 and Vista). First up, we have the original Windows 7 look pictured above, and the Windows 8 look, below:
It's not a big change from Windows 7, but it does look better in my opinion.
It looks like HTC will be slapping Android 4.1 'Jelly Bean' onto two of their smartphones, the HTC One XL and One S. The news comes from my favorite Australian telco, Telstra. Telstra are claiming that "HTC is preparing an update but is yet to confirm the date it will be submitted for Telstra testing".
But, does that tease really mean we should be seeing a leap to Jelly Bean? Maybe. Owners of the Tegra 3-powered One X isn't one of the phones listed for the JB update, but that is most probably because Telstra don't offer that model, and it's more likely that HTC are working on a JB update for the One X, too.
Once there's an official announcement, or a surprise release, you can be sure that we'll let you know.
Well, it looks like the wait is nearly over, folks. Microsoft have just slated in Windows 8's release on their Windows Team Blog for October 26. This means that the OS is just two and a bit months away from being in our grubby little hands.
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October 26th, 2012! That's right! Just a few minutes ago, Steven Sinofsky announced at Microsoft's annual sales meeting that customers will be able to get Windows 8 - whether in upgrade fashion or on a new PC - starting on October 26th. Earlier this month at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference, Tami Reller told attendees Windows 8 would be available in October. But now everyone has a specific date to mark on their calendars. It's on mine!
Will you grab Windows 8 on release? I'm personally going to grab a copy, because I'm just a tech addict, but I'm thinking it will really shine on touch-based systems. I wouldn't mind seeing a high-res Ultrabook to keep up with the Retina MacBook Pro, but be touch-based, too.
Apple's iOS 6 Beta 3 has hit developers today, and it looks like the company updated their change log, revealing that they're in the first stages of moving over me.com e-mail addresses and Apple IDs available under MobileMe to new addresses using icloud.com.
icloud.com email addresses are now available for iCloud mail users. Users signing up for new Apple IDs, or enabling Mail on their iCloud account for the first time, will automatically receive an @icloud.com email address instead of a me.com email address. iCloud users with @me.com addresses that have been used with iOS 6 beta 3 will receive an @icloud.com email address that matches their @me.com address.
MobileMe was discontinued on June 30 in favor of iCloud, but MobileMe users are still able to transition their accounts to iCloud, but for a limited time only.
Apple released iOS 6 Beta 3 to developers today, with the next-gen mobile OS set to hit users' devices sometime "this fall", most likely with the new iPhone that is rumored to be announced on August 7.
iOS 6 Beta 3 is Build 10A5355d, which is released only three weeks after the previous dev version which was Build 10A5338d. Users are the ones that really add juice to this news, thanks to forum discussion and blogs. One of the additions to this new beta is a new section in the Settings app for Maps, which now allows users to change the volume of the navigation voice, set distances to display in miles or kilometers, set map labels to display either in the local language or always in English, and finally, to set map label sizes to either "normal" or "large".
Other changes found in iOS 6 Beta 3 include:
- Roadwork and traffic accidents showing up in Maps app
- Answer and Decline buttons for FaceTime calls have returned
- iMessage on iPad now accepting phone number as valid contact info
- Greater 3D Flyover coverage in Maps
- Glyphs for bookmarks, Reading List, and history in Safari
- Auto-brightness changes gradually
Windows Phone 8 seems to be adding a fair amount of notches to its belt, before its even released. Microsoft's Joe Belfiore talked about the mobile OS at the WP Summit a few weeks ago, but there are also leaks and more around, too.
Then, a rumor has been floating around that Windows Phone 8 is to support "USB Mass Storage", which is the ability to simply plug your phone into your computer and transfer files. But, WPCentral says that this is no rumor, and that it is 100-percent truth, as Microsoft talks about this with the site, and a few other news outlets, pre-Summit. Secondly, WPCentral says you can watch the video yourself with Joe Belfiore briefly discussing the feature at the 14-minute mark in the Summit video.


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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released a report late last week revealing that a variety of children’s drugs, including Robitussin and Dimetapp, have been recalled,media reported. The recall involves two batches of over-the-counter drugs, 4 ounces and 8 ounces of cough and cold drugs. GlaxoSmithKline ‘GSK) consumer health care company initiated a recall after the issue was discovered, according to the FDA.
When it comes to drug recalls, it is usually caused by two reasons: some components of the drug are found to have been used at the wrong dose level to put the patient at risk of overeating or under-eplay, or some type of drug contamination can cause some level of adverse reaction in the patient.
This time it’s not — the good news is that parents don’t have to worry about the potential threat to their health if over-the-counter drugs given to their children. Instead, GSK Consumer Health has voluntarily recalled the two Robitussin and Dimetapp because it found that measuring cups, including these products, lacked some measurement marks.
Liquid drugs such as cough syrup are usually fitted with a small plastic cup for pouring and measuring the correct dose, with small lines indicating the number of 5ml and 10ml. This is convenient because many people don’t have ready-made dosages or syringes in their homes.
According to the recall notice, GSK found that some plastic measuring cups attached to the drugs lacked some measurement marks. In the recalled child Robitussin Hoeny, the cup may be missing a 5 ml or 10 ml mark. In the recalled child Dimetapp, the cup may be missing 10ml mark.


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Stanford researchers have developed a new wearable that uses sweat to measure wearer's cortisol levels. Cortisol, a vital hormone associated with stress, can be tested using existing methods, but it will take several days for the results. Stanford's creation eliminates this long wait and delivers important stress hormone numbers when they matter most.
The project was led by material scientist Alberto Salleo at Stanford University. According to the team, the team has created a stretchy wearable patch that can be applied directly to the patient's skin, absorbs sweat and measures the cortisol level. This method provides continuous monitoring that is non-invasive.
This wearable works by passive perspiration transporting sweat of the wearer in a small reservoir covered with a cortisol sensitive membrane. The biggest requirement is that the wearer produce enough sweat that it glitters, which means he probably has to go to the sauna or the gym for the monitoring to work.
The portable device is promising for various medical conditions involving cortisol, which are difficult to treat due to the delay in measuring cortisol levels. Continuous monitoring of cortisol levels could open the door to more effective medical treatments.
A prototype of the device "seems to work", as the researchers intended, according to the university, although additional work could improve accuracy and reliability. In addition, the team can create a reusable patch that can be applied multiple times. the prototype itself indicates that it could be used repeatedly as long as it was not soaked.


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While the rest of the world is trying to live more sustainably and find ways to reduce its trash output, LG Labs has put its resources into designing yet another pod-based instant coffee machine with a twist: it actually uses two pods to make a single cup of coffee, doubling the amount of trash generated with every cup brewed.
We’ve explained time and time again why pod-based coffee machines from companies like Keurig and Nespresso are a bad idea. Sure, they’re more convenient than having to manually lift a spoonful of freeze-dried instant coffee and dump it into a mug, but unless you’re using a refillable pod (based on how many varieties of pre-filled pods are available in stores, most users clearly aren’t filling their own) these machines generate a lot of unnecessary trash. And while both brands have worked to ensure their respective pods are fully recyclable, that doesn’t guarantee that all consumers will be responsible enough to dispose of them properly.
LG Labs has decided that what’s more important for the Earth is giving consumers the chance to feel like they’re coffee shop baristas. The Duobo, which looks like a three-legged alien robot, is designed to use two Nespresso-style pods for every cup of coffee it produces, allowing users to mix flavors to create their own custom blends. Using buttons on the Duobo’s base, or a mobile app that wirelessly connects to the coffee maker, users can also adjust the “extraction temperature” of the water and the amount of pressure the machine uses to fine-tune the brew to their preferences.
Somehow, an alien-like design or churning through twice the number of coffee pods per cup isn’t the Duobo’s weirdest feature. The machine’s base includes an LCD screen that’s used to display custom content including coffee-related PSAs, promotions for coffee-related events, and ads for coffee brands, while the user waits for their beverage to brew. Putting screens on appliances isn’t a new idea, there are lots of fridges with the feature, but it’s confusing how it’s been implemented here, as the Duobo’s display is located right where you’re supposed to place your coffee cup to be filled. The display is going to be obscured every time the machine is used, and it’s doubtful anyone’s going to want to hang around it when they’re not seeking a caffeine fix.
That probably explains why this LG Labs creation is making its way to consumers through a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign, instead of the company churning out thousands that could collect dust on store shelves. Early bird backers of the campaign can pre-order the Duobo, with delivery expected sometime in December, for a hefty $399, which is actually half the expected full retail price of $799. Oof. With most crowdfunded products there’s the risk of nothing ever materializing, or considerable shipping delays, but here it seems like LG Labs is using the platform as a way to gauge interest in the Duobo so the company has a better idea of how many to manufacture. With just 70 backers so far, it doesn’t seem like Keurig has much to worry about.


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Mayor Georges Marsan and Marjorie Crovetto Harroch, Deputy Mayor, Delegate for the Framework of Life, Environment and Sustainable Development, have received three new electric scooters for the Monaco City Hall.
The two-wheelers – Vespa Elettrica 50cm3 with a range of 100 kilometers – will be assigned to the Municipal Police and the Service of the Communal Domain – Trade, Market and Markets.
The Town Hall reaffirms its commitment and commitment to the environment by further developing its fleet of 100% electric vehicles. A fleet that should accommodate other electric scooters of the same type soon.
The reception of these new electric scooters comes a few weeks after the signing of the National Pact for the Energy Transition, on October 8, through which the City Council commits to continue its actions on environmental issues around three main lines of action: mobility, waste and energy.
MonacoTech has announced that one of the companies they support, Yachtneeds, has just raised €1.25 million in funding, allowing for a major expansion of the business starting this summer.
As Monte-Carlo Fashion Week celebrates its 10th anniversary this week, the event has become a yardstick for the sustainable and ethical fashion industries.
CoinAgenda is currently underway at the Meridien, bringing together experts and the crypto-curious to talk blockchain and cryptocurrency. Organiser Michael Terpin tells us more.
Two spectacular events are coming to the Grimaldi Forum in June featuring music, dance, acrobatics and magic.


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Holiday website Lastminute sold at massive loss to Swiss-based travel group Bravofly Rumbo Group
The travel website that became a symbol of the dotcom boom and bust has been sold at a massive loss for its US owner.
Holiday website Lastminute.com, founded at the peak of the dotcom boom by Martha Lane Fox and Brent Hoberman in 1998, has been bought by Swiss-based travel group Bravofly Rumbo Group in a £76million deal.
The sale has left owner US-based Sabre nursing a huge loss after it paid £577million nine years ago.
Making a loss: Holiday website Lastminute.com, founded at the peak of the dotcom boom by Martha Lane Fox and Brent Hoberman in 1998, has been bought by Bravofly Rumbo Group in a £76million deal
Sabre, which also owns Travelocity, sold the website to concentrate on its core technology businesses which handle around a third of the world’s travel agency transactions.
Bravofly saw off competition from the likes of Expedia for the website which has operations across the UK, France, Germany, Spain and Italy. Lastminute.com expanded hugely in its first two years and listed in 2000 at 380p.
The shares spiked 35 per cent on their first day of trading to hit a high of 511p but fell back just months later to as low as 80p. It didn’t make a profit until 2003 when Lane-Fox stepped down as managing director.
The company helped its founders become poster children of the dotcom explosion. Lane-Fox left and set up karaoke chain Lucky Voice and became Baroness Lane-Fox of Soho last year.
Hoberman quit in 2006 and has since founded and invested in a number of internet companies including mydeco.com.
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After 16 days of political brinkmanship, lawmakers passed a temporary funding plan that raised the debt ceiling and reopened the federal government.
But now, the nation is just barreling toward a new set of deadlines -- lawmakers have until January 15 to deal with the budget and February 7 to deal with the debt ceiling. Until Congress sets the country on stable financial footing for the long term, we're bound to play this game over and over again.
As lawmakers begin negotiations, the conversation must start with tax and entitlement reform. This begins with Medicare and Social Security, as they're the most pressing challenges facing our country. more >>
Radio commentator Rush Limbaugh attacked Pope Francis' letter, condemning the pope's comments on the "new tyranny" of "unfettered capitalism" as uninformed and somehow planted by the Marxist movement.
"This is just pure Marxism coming out of the mouth of the pope," Limbaugh declared. The commentator noted that, until this letter, he had admired Pope Francis. Now, however, he must distance himself. On economics, the pope is "totally wrong, I mean dramatically, embarrassingly, puzzlingly wrong."
In "Evangelii Gaudium," an "apostolic exhortation" sent to the entire Roman Catholic Church, Francis insisted on a renewal of the Catholic Church and a political battle against poverty and inequality to combat a soulless economic system. "The worship of the ancient golden calf (cf. Ex 32:1-35) has returned in a new and ruthless guise in the idolatry of money and the dictatorship of an impersonal economy lacking a truly human purpose," Francis wrote. more >>
As millions of Americans go to the stores for frenzied shopping on the day after Thanksgiving, a group of Texas churches have sought to provide an alternative.
"Bless Friday," a time away from the shopping centers and the seasonal sales, involves congregations organizing community service projects for Black Friday, with the hopes of someday making such volunteer work the norm.
For most Americans, Thanksgiving is a time of plenty, where tables are overflowing with all manners of foods and drinks.
The turkey often gets the prominent placing, along with mash potatoes, pumpkin pies, salads, cranberry sauce, and many other items that remind people of all they have available.
Yet for some, Thanksgiving is not a holiday of abundance but deprivation, where neither a food-filled table nor extended family are present. more >>
Thanksgiving is as wonderful a holiday as they come. This American holiday represents the commencement of "the most wonderful time of the year" and celebrates the thankfulness of the early American settlers for their survival. It is a day for reflection in the heart and celebration of the hearth, and in a pluralistic America, it is a holiday sacred to all.
In recent years, Black Friday has been celebrated as a holiday in its own right, with its own rites and virtues, plundering other holidays' themes and imagery to create a bizarre tradition all its own: The day of hysterical shopping blends Christmas marketing with Back-to-School season commercialism and a New Years' Eve-like countdown to midnight.
But this year, corporate marauders have chosen to literally pillage time from Thanksgiving Day itself. Many American retailers will be commencing their Black Friday sales on Thanksgiving Day, rather than doing families the courtesy of waiting until midnight. USA Today reported recently that Wal-Mart, Target, Best Buy, Sears, Macy's, Kohl's, J. C. Penney, and Old Navy are among the chains that will have locations open for business on Thanksgiving. Their likely reasons include a short holiday season and shaky profits in light of a weak American economy. more >>
One of the largest churches in North America will soon be charging entry fees for visitors who are there for sight-seeing purposes.
Washington National Cathedral, located in the District of Columbia, announced Monday that it will begin charging an entry fee in January for a "six-month trial period."


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Cardamom traders in Phuentsholing say manipulations by middlemen result in the drop in cardamom prices.
Some claim it is a syndicate formed by a handful of middlemen from across the border, who work for Bhutanese traders that have deteriorated the market.
Cardamom price yesterday dropped to Nu 480 a kg from the day before. Few days ago, the spice fetched Nu 525.
Singye Wangdi of Singye Export and Import in the town said buyers in Siliguri offered Nu 550 to Nu 570.
“But some people here are manipulating the price,” he said, adding there were about seven people involved in disrupting the market price in Phuentsholing.
“Our buyers have told us that they don’t prefer to buy from us.”
Singye Wangdi said it would be better for the farmers if Food Corporation of Bhutan Limited took cardamom auction back. The highest bidders would then take the cardamom from the farmers.
Traders also say that price is better in Tendruk, Samtse, with Nu 525 a kg, which shows that the market in Phuentsholing town is manipulated.
Meanwhile, this year has been the worst for cardamom growers and traders in the country with prices falling to a record low of Nu 450 per kg, a drop from Nu 750 in February this year.
The proprietor with the Bhutan Export Business Line (BEBL), Rinzin Dorji, said workers from across the border, who work for Bhutanese exporters, created the syndicate.
“They are experienced players in the market and know the trick of the trade,” he said. “Sadly, farmers are losing.”
Rinzin Dorji also shared the price decrease is due to the overall increase of cardamom production in recent years. “The price has decreased because of more supply in the market.”
Farmers like Gangto Dukpa from Darla had more than 100kgs of cardamom but he cancelled his travel to Phuentsholing at the last moment.
“The price had decreased from earlier Nu 525 per kg,” he said.
In August this year, traders also complained about the influx of inferior quality cardamom into Bhutan, which then was exported to Bangladesh as a Bhutanese brand.
Local traders claimed cardamom from Nepal and Assam entered the country.
They claimed that cardamom from these places is graded in Siliguri and the small-sized cardamom, which is low in quality, entered Phuentsholing. People involved in this did it to escape tax, as Bhutan cardamom export is tax-free in Bangladesh.
Rinzin Dorji said this has decreased now as exporters affected had informed the trade office. “There is surveillance now.”
Traders in Phuentsholing are also calling for strict monitoring from concerned agencies with regards to the weighing of cardamom farmers bring for sale.
Rajesh Rai | Phuentsholing


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Stella Tennant, the iconic British model famed for her statuesque beauty and inimitable personal style, has passed away at the age of 50.
While Tennant was first known for her signature tousled pixie haircut, androgynous features, and commanding six-foot-tall presence – as well as her longstanding creative relationships with fashion legends from Steven Meisel to Karl Lagerfeld – her passion for sculpture, environmental causes, and her home country of Scotland were what eventually became closest to her heart.
The news of Tennant’s untimely death was confirmed earlier today in a statement released by her family – including her husband, the French photographer David Lasnet, and her four children, Marcel, Cecily, Jasmine, and Iris – who asked for their privacy to be respected.
“It is with great sadness we announce the sudden death of Stella Tennant on 22 December 2020,” the statement read.
“Stella was a wonderful woman and an inspiration to us all. She will be greatly missed. Arrangements for a memorial service will be announced at a later date.”


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WASHINGTON -- Ladies, don't bogart that chocolate! Pass it on to the men.
A new study finds that compared with men who reported eating little-to-no chocolate on a regular basis, those who had the highest weekly consumption of chocolate -- about 63 grams per week, or just a little more than 2 ounces -- reduced their likelihood of suffering a stroke by 17 percent.
The latest findings, published in the journal Neurology, are drawn from a population of 37,103 Swedish men, whose age ranged from 45 to 79 at the start of an average follow-up period of about 10 years. The study fills out a picture of chocolate consumption, especially of dark chocolate, that has firmly demonstrated cardiovascular benefits for women. For men, however, research on chocolate's health benefits had been less consistent in its findings.
-- Los Angeles Times


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Abdullah makes pitch for Indian investment in Afghanistan
Addressing a conference on regional connectivity at the Afghan embassy in New Delhi, the CEO praised India’s cooperation with Afghanistan. Investment by the Indian private sector was vital to regional stability, he said.
Abdullah assured Indian entrepreneurs of security and incentives for investment in Afghanistan’s infrastructure, energy, agriculture, domestic products, public health, capacity development, education, information technology and other sectors.
He made a strong pitch for greater cooperation on economic development, as well as peace and stability in the region. He suggested more transit facilities in the region.
“The dream of breakfast in Kabul, launch in Islamabad and dinner in Delhi has not come true for certain reasons. Now is the time to change this dream into reality. Free transportation of goods for the development and prosperity of the region,” he observed.
Abdullah hoped the Chabahar port in Iran would be inaugurated soon to boost facilitate regional trade links and exchanges between India and Afghanistan.
The CEO described Afghaistan as a bridge linking Central Asain states with South Asia, other regional and Europe countire. That would finally help in bringing peace and stability to Afghanistan.
Indian officials and investors welcomed the facilities offered by Afghansitan. They favoured efforts for strengthening bilateral relations, an easy transfer of goods and better business links between the two countries.
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Telangana IT and Industries Minister KT Rama Rao on Thursday satisfied Taiwanese electronics large Foxconn chairman Younger Liu in the national capital and invited him to explore expense options in the state.
Foxconn, a person of the major digital producing companies suppliers, has generation models in Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh. For the duration of the interaction, the Telangana minister and Liu talked over Foxconn’s designs of expanding its footprint in India, an official assertion mentioned.
“Foxconn is 1 of the largest companies globally in the domain of electronics production. We are energized about their choice to undertaking into the electronic car or truck (EV) production too. I assure the company of the finest assist attainable from Telangana and invite the staff to examine the condition,” Rao explained.
Telangana has emerged as a chosen expenditure vacation spot for investments in the electronics sector and offers of a vivid R&D and innovation ecosystem. The point out is outfitted with robust industrial infrastructure and is properly-positioned to satisfy the prerequisites of worldwide majors, he additional.
Rao also shared the techniques taken by the condition authorities in building an enabling ecosystem and infrastructure for fostering electronics manufacturing in Telangana.
Speaking about the company’s upcoming options, the Foxconn Chairman mentioned, “India is an interesting manufacturing spot, and we would like to see how we can expand our producing footprint. Our India expertise has been remarkable, and we search forward to exploring the prospects that Telangana….” Telangana IT Principal Secretary Jayesh Ranjan and Director Electronics Sujai Karampuri were also current for the duration of the conference.
In other enhancement, Liu on Thursday also fulfilled Vedanta Group’s Taking care of Director Akarsh Hebbar to focus on the roadmap of their proposed electronic chip manufacturing plant and its area.
Vedanta and Foxconn experienced signed a memorandum of knowledge in February to form a joint enterprise enterprise in India. Vedanta will hold 60 % of the equity in the joint undertaking, whilst Foxconn will individual 40 p.c.
“Foxconn Chairman Young Liu satisfied Akarsh Hebbar, Vedanta Group’s World wide Taking care of Director of Screen & Semiconductor Business, in New Delhi to examine the upcoming methods for their proposed partnership to manufacture semiconductor chips in India,” Foxconn mentioned in a statement.
According to sources, the two talked about the location of environment up their semiconductor plant, which will be introduced before long.
This is the initial joint enterprise in the electronics producing house just after the governing administration announced an incentive scheme for semiconductors and display screen production.
Vedanta is arranging to spend close to $15 billion in a stage-sensible manner about the subsequent 5-10 yrs to establish shows and semiconductor chips in India.
The JV will search at location up a semiconductor production plant in the future two yrs.


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Officials expect prices to go further down if India Meteorological Departments first forecast of 2010 southwest monsoon comes true. The department had predicted a normal monsoon has calmed aggressive speculative activities in the market.
Meanwhile, according to the data released on Thursday, food inflation dropped because of a fall in the prices of key agricultural commodities such as wheat, potatoes and onions.
An official statement said the prices of masur, fruits and vegetables and jowar went down marginally by 2% each, while that of wheat dipped by only 1% during the week over the year-ago period. However, the prices of moong (4%), urad and fish-inland (3% each) and arhar, condiments and spices, rice, maize, gram and bajra (1% each) went up.
On an annual basis, potato prices significantly declined by 28% on glut in supplies in various parts of the country and onions became cheaper by 10%. However, pulses remained expensive by about 30%, milk by 22% and fruits by about 10% over the last year.
According to a statement by the department of consumer affairs early this week, the rise in sugar prices during last two months, which had put the UPA government in great distress, either decreased or held steady across the country during the last week.
Edible oils, potato and onion prices also decreased at some centres and remained steady at most of the reporting centres. The prices of pulses, gram and masoor dal have decreased at some centres, while remaining steady at most of the reporting centers, the statement said
An FE analysis also showed that barring the marginal rise in rice prices in Delhi and Kolkata and the increase in tur dal prices by 6% to Rs 66 a kg in Bangalore during the last week, the prices of rice, wheat, tur dal, potato, sugar and mustard oil went down in the most of the key cities or urban centres.
In Kolkata, the retail prices of tur dal went down by more than 8.3% to Rs 60 a kg during the week.


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* Donkey Kong, Halo: Combat Evolved and Street Fighter II made the cut
* Pac-Man, Grand Theft Auto III and The Legend of Zelda are already in the Hall of Fame
* Pong (1972) was the world’s first video game
The World Video Game Hall of Fame has announced that five classic video games will be inducted this year. They are Donkey Kong, Halo: Combat Evolved, Pokemon Red, Pokemon Green and Street Fighter II. The Hall of Fame, which is housed in the Strong National Museum of Play in Rochester, NY, recognizes individual video games that have gained a high level of popularity and made a significant cultural impact. This year’s inductees were chosen based on their iconic status, their continued popularity, their geographical reach and their influence on games development, entertainment and pop culture, writes CNBC.
The inductees will join other video game classics such as DOOM, Grand Theft Auto III, The Legend of Zelda, The Oregon Trail, Pac-Man, Pong, The Sims, Sonic the Hedgehog, Space Invaders, Super Mario Brothers, Tetris, and World of Warcraft.
A look back at the hall of famers reveals just how far gaming technology has advanced since its inception. Pong, which was released by Atari in 1972, was the world’s first video game. The game consists of nothing more than players bouncing a ball back and forth between paddles.
When you compare those humble beginnings to today’s market, where gamers immerse themselves in a virtual reality experience and connect via internet to play with friends, you can see just how far the technology has advanced.
According to the Strong Museum, anyone can nominate a game to the World Video Game Hall of Fame. Final selections are determined by a group of journalists, scholars, and other individuals familiar with the history of video games and their role in society. Nominations are now being accepted for the 2018 induction.


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"Final Fantasy 14" Player/YouTuber, Ross "RubberNinja" O'Dovonan, vows to eat nearly 140K eggs and he would not stop streaming without successfully fulfilling it.
This video game challenge has gone to another level of crazy, beating the same record that RubberNinja made in 2020, wherein he finished off 999 eggs in "Final Fantasy 14."
On August 17, 2020, the "Final Fantasy 14" player went on to live stream until he finished the challenge, VG247 reported.
When RubberNinja announced his endeavor last year, other players of the MMO game quickly gave him eggs to eat, which ended up to almost a thousand pieces.
As such, aside from marking a "Final Fantasy 14" history, RubberNinja has also proven that consuming nearly a thousand eggs is possible as long as both patience and perseverance are present.
'Final Fantasy 14' Player and Nearly 140K Eggs
This time around, the YouTuber is seemingly not satisfied with his previous record. Thus, as per The Gamer, he wanted to wipe out the entire inventory in the game, which is at nearly 140,000 eggs.
O'Dovanan announced his new challenge via Twitter, saying that going beyond the 999 eggs mark in "Final Fantasy 14" is the "worst idea" he has ever thought of. He went on to say that he will be eating a "full inventory of eggs," which accounts for about 138K+ eggs.
'Final Fantasy 14' Egg Eating Stream
To prove that the achievement is done successfully without cheating, he decided to stream the entirety of the challenge until it was done, similar to what he did nearly one year ago.
Not just that, O' Donovan also wanted to spice up things by exclusively eating only egg dishes in real life as he fulfills his goal. According to Kotaku, the whole egg-eating event is being streamed live on Twitch under the name "Eggwalker."
To further step up the game of this year's egg-stream, RubberNinja has a bonus sub goal, which will force him to add another 999 eggs for every additional 1,000 Twitch subs he gets during the whole live event. Not to mention, he also vowed to shave his head upon reaching 20,000 subscribers.
"Final Finatasy 14" Egg-Eating Stream: Necessary Breaks
Of course, RubberNinja still needs to eat, shower, take a break in the restroom, and sleep, just like a typical human being. So, in such cases, his stream will not stop but will instead show a macro wherein his character is still eating eggs from the game.
However, he had to temporarily stop the stream after reaching the 48 hour limit of Twitch. Before doing so, RubberNinja had already eaten about 39,000 eggs in total.
Elsewhere, a "World of Warcraft" streamer, Asmongold, tried playing "Final Fantasy 14" for the first time, and it ended up in a mess.
Meanwhile, the "Final Fantasy 14" game director Naoki Yoshida says that he does not fancy people saying that his game has beaten "World of Warcraft."
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Written by Teejay Boris